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KING ABDULLAH II CHOSE TO OVERRID HIS LATE
FATHER's DYING WISH, KH HAD ASKED PRINCE ABDULLAH, HIS ELDEST
SON, BORN BY HIS SECOND WEDDING TO BRITISH- BORN TONI GARDINER,
TO NAME " THE APPLE OF MY EYES", AS KH HIMSELF USED
TO CALL THE ONLY CHILD OF HIS HE TRULY LOVED, PRINCE HAMZEH,
WHO HAD BEEN RAISED BY KH HIMSELF, AND WHO WAS THE ONLY
CHILD WHO REALLY DEARLY LOVED HIS OWN FATHER, AND THE ONLY
CHILD WHO HAD BEEN CLOSE TO KH, SINCE HE WAS BORN IN
1980, WELL, KH ASKED THE SON HE HAD CHOSEN TO BE THE
NEW KING OF JORDAN, TO NAME HIS BELOVED SON HAMZEH, HIS
OWN CP, THIS HAPPENED ON JAN 25, 1999, WHEN
KH UNDERSTOOD HE WAS GOING TO DIE SOON. IN FACT, ON
THE VERY NEXT DAY, ON JAN 26, 1999, KH HAD TO GET
BACK TO MAYO CLINIC, IN USA, TO RETURN TO JORDAN IN A
COMA, ONLY ON FEB 6, 1999, TO DIE IN A AMMAN HOSPITAL
ON THE NEXT DAY, ON FEB 7, 1999, KH HAD
ASKED PRINCE ABDULLAH TO BE THE NEW KING ONLY FOR 5 YEARS,
AS PRINCE HAMZAH WAS STILL SHY OF 19 YEARS OLD, AND
THEN , AFTER 5 YEARS, RESIGN, SO PRINCE HAMZAH, WHO KH
HAD BEEN RAISED, SINCE HIS BIRTH, AS HIS ONLY SUCCESSOR,
COULD BECOME KING OF JORDAN AT 24 OF AGE. P. ABDULLAH
PROMISED HIS DYING FATHER, AS HE AND HIS GREEDY WIFE BADLY
WANTED TO BE KING AND QUEEN, KH, OF COURSE, TRUSTED HIM,
HIS ELDEST SON, BUT,......... KH HAD FORGOTTEN THAT P. ABDULLAH
HAD HAD A SON BY RANIA BACK IN 1994, KA,
AS SOON AS HE LEARNT HIS WIFE WAS EXPECTING, AS THEIR
4TH CHILD, A SPARE MALE: PRINCE HASHIM, WHO WAS TO
BORN ON JAN 30, 2005, KA MADE A VERY HYPOCRITAL
STATEMENT ON JORDAN TV, ON NOV 28, 2004, IN WHICH HE STRIPPED
HIS HALF- BROTHER, PRINCE HAMZEH, OF HIS TITLE OF CROWN PRINCE
OF JORDAN. OF COURSE, PRINCE HAMZEH, WHO WAS THEN STUDYING AT
HARVARD IN US, WAS NOT AT ALL, AWARE OF WHAT HIS HALF- BROTHER,
HAD IN MIND, HE DID NOT KNOW THAT KA HAD SUMMONED 2 OF
HIS OWN BROTHERS, P. ALI AND P. FEISAL, BOTH OF THEM HALF-
BROTHERS OF HAMZEH, BUT NOT P. HASHIM, WHO WAS THE ONLY FULL
BROTHER OF HAMZEH, NOR HAMZEH, OF COURSE, HAD BEEN ALERTED
BY HIS FAMILY, HE WAS SUMMONED IN A HASTE TO COME TO
JORDAN, SO HE LEARNT FROM TV WHAT WAS HAPPENING, KA WAS
TO PAVE WAY TO HIS ELDEST SON, PRINCE HUSSEIN, WHO WAS ALREADY
10, AT THE TIME. KA HAD ALSO BEEN SCARED AS HAMZEH HAD MARRIED
A HASHEMITE PRINCESS, WHILE QUEEN RANIA HAS PALESTININAN ROOTS, AND
SHE IS DESPICED BY TRULY JORDANIANS. THESE LAST DO LOVE HAMZEH,
WHO IS ALSO A MODERATE ISLAMIST, AND HIS WIFE, WHO IS ALSO
A DESCENDANT FROM THE PROPHET, BEING A HASHEMITE HERSELF, WHOSE
GREAT- GREAT- GRANDFATHER WAS SHARIF HUSSEIN, THE SAME SHARIF OF MAKKA
AND MEDINA ( HIJAZ), FROM WHOM HAMZEH DID DESCEND. SINCE LAST
NOV 28, BOTH PRINCE HAMZAH AND HIS OWN MOTHER, QUEEN NOOR
AL HUSSEIN, WERE MADE OUTCAST FROM THEIR OWN COUNTRY, JORDAN.
| HRH PRINCES ALI, FEISAL, HAMZAH, ABDULLAH |
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| AND HASHIM AT MAKKA IN 1999. |
| P. HASHIM' s WED DAY IN KSA, P. HAMZAH IS |
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| SECOND FROM LEFT. JAN 8, 2006. |
| HRH PRINCE HAMZAH KISSES HIS HALF- SISTER |
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| P. HAYAH, IN 2000. |
| HRH PRINCES HAMZAH AND HIS HALF- BROTHER, |
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| FEISAL. 2000. |
| HRH PRINCE HAMZAH AT ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY |
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| OF SANDHURST, UK, ON DEC 10, 1999. |
| FROM LEFT TO RIGHT : P. HAMZAH, P. HAYAH, |
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| P. ZEIN, TWO OF HIS FOUR HALF- SISTERS. 2000. |
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